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“Wanted – candidates from any nationality to qualify themselves as real Brahmins for preaching the teachings of Bhagwat Geeta for …

— Abhay Charan De

IT WAS ANOTHER twelve-hour ride with dozens of stops. The train’s rattling and clattering and its rocking from side to …

Abhay was going to Jhansi – not for business, but for preaching. One month before, in October of 1952, when …

Abhay was fifty-six, and his commanding presentation of Kṛṣṇa consciousness had impressed the young, religious-minded people of Jhansi. Twenty-five-year-old Prabhakar …

Short and stocky Dr. Shastri, just beginning his career in Ayurvedic medicine, was an active young man, fascinated by Abhay’s …

Abhay had come to them not as a pharmaceutical salesman or as a man with family concerns, but purely as …

After staying for ten days, Abhay had returned to Allahabad, but remembering Jhansi he had been unable to concentrate on …

The nations of the world had sought unity through the League of Nations, and recently through the United Nations. The …

So Abhay had been thinking that perhaps a likely place to start an organization of devotees would be Jhansi. It …

As the train pulled into the station, Abhay saw Dr. Shastri waving energetically. They rode together by ṭāṅgā to Dr. …

Dr. Shastri lived alone in a two-story rented building in Jhansi’s Sipri Bazaar. On the first floor he had his …

Abhay and Dr. Shastri would cook and eat together like family members. Abhay revealed his idea for a “League of …

Dr. Shastri: In his heart, always it was burning that the whole world was suffering in the materialistic view – …

He was always trying to create a good atmosphere through Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Bhagavad-gītā. The whole Bhagavad-gītā was his practical life. …

While Dr. Shastri tended his clinic, Abhay sat and spoke with patients, occasionally recommending medicines but mostly preaching. For now …

He began regularly lecturing and chanting at various programs in the city, sometimes at several in one day. On Sundays …

Mr. Ram Mitra, the shopkeeper-poet, maintained a Śiva temple near his home, and Abhay began to perform kīrtana and lecture …

Mr. Mitra saw that Abhay’s ambition was no less than to make the whole city of Jhansi alive with Kṛṣṇa …

Once Mr. Mitra offered Abhay a copy of his book, showing him the foreword by a famous man, and repeatedly …